Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no help from wrangling lawyers, the judge had to use common sense. A normal walking pace, he ruled, was three miles an hour. At that speed, no worker took more than three minutes to walk from the portal to his bench...
...White Paper nor any other British announcement reported the gloomiest fact of all: the rate at which Britain is using up her medicine, the U.S. and Canadian loans. The $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan is being spent at the rate of $120,000,000 a month; at that pace it will not last beyond 1948. The $1,250,000,000 Canadian credit is being spent at the rate of $50,000,000 a month; at that pace it will be exhausted by March 1948. (The rate of expenditure was not specified in the loan agreements, but, unofficially, British spokesmen...
Dead Reckoning (Columbia) would be quite a good thriller if it kept the edge and pace of its first hour or so. During that time ex-Paratrooper Humphrey Bogart hustles all over Gulf City, from morgue to Catholic church to cabaret, in his efforts to learn who rubbed out his comrade-at-arms (William Prince), and why. He becomes interested, particularly, in his late pal's hoarse sweetheart (Lizabeth Scott), in a suave nightclub proprietor (Morris Carnovsky) and in Carnovsky's fat strong-arm boy (Marvin Miller), who likes to torture his victims to soft music...
Ballet Society intends to work out new ballets at its own pace, with no need to rush onstage with them. For the first two or three years it will not try to reach a big public, will make no tours. It plans about four performances a year, open to subscribers only ($15 and up). Last week, in Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse, subscribers saw their second show. There were two new ballets by Balanchine. Critics (whose papers had to buy them memberships to get them in) liked best his linear Divertimento, had kind words for Renard...
...world conquest." The Chicago Tribune was also annoyed, although it seemed to have the opposite objection: "One Worlders Stress U.S. as a Global Santa," said the Tribune; it also called the participants "lickspittle members." * U.S.-educated Jan Masaryk spoke the word peace in several tongues: paix (French), paz (Spanish), pace (Italian), bćke (Hungarian), vrede (Dutch), baris (Turkish), mir (Czech) and ping (Chinese). † A misquotation from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Lincoln, less conscious than Byrnes of "power," said: "With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...